Charlie, On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 15:24, Charles Goodwin wrote: > My design: http://www.charlietech.com/goffice Some comments on your design - basically it's pretty good but I've got a few quibbles... s/Abiword/AbiWord/g Drop the doctype from XHTML 1.1 to XHTML 1.0 Strict. According to the standards [1] XHTML 1.1 must be served as application/xhtml+xml and MSIE won't render it if you do. XHTML 1.0 can be served as text/html which all browsers will be happy with. Stop messing with my font sizes. I've got my default font set to a size that I like, and you shouldn't be changing it - if the text looks to big on your browser with font-size: medium then you need to change this in your browser settings, not on the page design. Incidentally, if you are setting absolute font sizes you should be points not pixels - the latter vary with the type of user agent being used. When I override your font sizes so that my eyes stop bleeding, the blue background of #nav and #mainlinks divs flows into the top of the h3 elements. Setting a single colour background will fix this and subtract almost nothing from the design. The AbiWord/Gnumeric/Planner icons should all have alt="" since the application name is in the heading next to them. The screenshots are way too small to be any use - either get rid of them or make them links to full size images. I'm pretty sure having the search box at the bottom of the page is against usability guidelines (it's best to make sure it's visible when the page is first loaded - I'll see if I can dig out a URL for this). I'd suggest either putting it in the header or adding another section on the right for it, above the 'GO Users' section. I don't think the User Portal/Applications/Community/etc. headings should be links. What would they be pointing to? Also I assume that this page is the 'About GO' one, in which case that shouldn't be a link. The valid XHTML/CSS icons don't work with the rest of the design and only impress geeks like me - most people don't care about this sort of thing. If you want to keep the links to the validators then I suggest you swap them for text-only links - much more subtle. And you really shouldn't have them if your page doesn't validate :) The black -> red rollovers on links is yuck. I can't believe you could do this after criticising my yellow backgrounds :) [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/NOTE-xhtml-media-types-20020801/ - olly
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